Fwd: [Asis-standards] FW: NISO Ballot-OpenURL, Z39.88-200X

FYI to our TCs concerned with distributed resource
discovery.   I have omitted the PDF attachments here. 
Jamie

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Subject: NISO Ballot-OpenURL, Z39.88-200X

* * * I am pleased to transmit for ballot the final text of the
OpenURL standard, ANSI/NISO Z39.88-200X. The ballot period is: January
26, 2004-March 10, 2004.

The OpenURL standard is a syntax to create web-transportable packages of
metadata and/or identifiers about an information object. Part 1 of the
Standard introduces the ContextObject; Part 2 lists the initial content
of the Registry to support implementation of the standard.

As you begin your review of the document please take time to read the
Foreword as important background information is provided.

In February NISO will host a conference call-briefing session on this
standard. As soon as the date and time are set you will receive a meeting
announcement. Please send me any questions that come up in your review of
the standard; your questions and early feedback will help frame the
agenda for the briefing.

NISO standards represent a consensus built on the dedicated efforts of
skilled, knowledgeable, and very hard working members of our
community.  Reaching the ballot stage is an important benchmark in
the standards development cycle; thanks and congratulations to the
members of Standards Committee AX for their achievement:

Eric F. Van de Velde, Committee Chairperson

California Institute of Technology

Ann Apps

MIMAS-Manchester Computing University of Manchester

Oren Beit-Arie

ExLibris (USA), Inc.

Karim Boughida

Getty Research Institute

Karen Coyle

California Digital Library, University of California (now
retired)

Todd Fegan

ProQuest Information and Learning

Tony Hammond

Elsevier Science Ltd.

Eric Hellman

Openly Informatics, Inc.

Lou Knecht

National Library of Medicine

Larry Lannom

Corporation for National Research Initiatives (CNRI)

Clifford Morgan NISO SDC Liaison

John Wiley & Sons Ltd

Mark H. Needleman

SIRSI Corporation

Eamonn Neylon

Manifest Solutions

Philip Norman

OCLC, Inc

Oliver Pesch

EBSCO Publishing

Harry Samuels

Endeavor Information Systems, Inc.

Herbert Van de Sompel

Los Alamos National Laboratory

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